2020 Project 52 by Antonio Correia - 1rd Quarter

[Geoff F]

Nicely bright and colourful harbour scene.

[Antonio Correia]

👍só, you did not like the black and white breakfast. 😂 👍

[Shadowman]

Post #60, nice compositions and the utensils look ready for business.

[Antonio Correia]

No John. Their work has just been done 😃
👍

[Antonio Correia]

Now I carry the camera almost all the time.
(this looks more like a diary than a "weekyary" )

I made some shots, came home and erased most of them. I tried bracketing but those pictures... no !
This is just the light coming from a side wall in a church I went in, just to take some photographs.
This one worth showing. Uninteresting indeed. Just to make some exercise to the pointing finger.

[Wavelength]

I like this

[Shadowman]

Nice rich colors, good scene for testing the camera's dynamic range.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Nandakumar and John for your kind comment !

I noticed however, that the corners are not so good as I would like them to be. Never mind !

[xpatUSA]

Nice rich colors, good scene for testing the camera's dynamic range.

+1 Indeed! Not sure that any of my cameras could handle that one ...

[Antonio Correia]

+1 Indeed! Not sure that any of my cameras could handle that one ...

Thank you for commenting ! Don't think so Ted !
You could do so, as all photographs are supposed to be worked in some kind of software and this is what has been done here. You can do the same.

In this photo I used CC and went through the Nik Collection probably, the Pro Contrast. I do remember what I have also played with the HSB and curves.
For the sake of space I flatten layers but keep the tif file in mainly, "simple" photos.

I do remember that while capturing, I tested the spot metering mode on the camera and I had an eye on the instagram.
No white areas were overexposed and that was good ! Bellow the reseted photo.

[xpatUSA]

Originally Posted by xpatUSA Not sure that any of my cameras could handle that one ...

Thank you for commenting ! Don't think so Ted !
You could do so, as all photographs are supposed to be worked in some kind of software and this is what has been done here.

I'm not sure with the Smileys if you were joking or not, Antonio.

But please remember that I shoot old Sigma digital cameras with the Foveon sensor. That means I can only capture 9 EV of scene dynamic range at best (Reasonable lighting etc). The basis for my comment is that your scene, with the bright sunlight reflection from the marble floor versus the really deep shadows at top left, looks like more DR than only 9 EV. Meaning that if the marble had a light value of 15 EV, the shadows would have to be over 6 EV for my camera's capability and they look darker than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposu...ing_conditions

You can do the same.

No, not if the raw data is blown or bottomed ... and I don't do dynamic range stacking ...

[Geoff F]

After the harbour scene I am afraid to say that the others don't really work for me.

With the dishes image the saucepan handle, which becomes the foreground, is out of focus. The chair and floor image has good exposure on a difficult lighting scene but there are no upright verticals so it looks as though the floor is sloping towards the image lower edge.

[Antonio Correia]

I'm not sure with the Smileys if you were joking or not, Antonio....

Please Ted, consider the smiley as, "Yes you can, you are being too nice"
And please Ted do not consider my sentence offensive or sarcastic. On the other hand, sometimes meanings are lost or biased when trying to speak/write non native languages, unless you have an exceptional experience on it which in English, I haven't.

Thank you for commenting again !

Cheers !

[Antonio Correia]

After the harbour scene I am afraid to say that the others don't really work for me.

With the dishes image the saucepan handle, which becomes the foreground, is out of focus. The chair and floor image has good exposure on a difficult lighting scene but there are no upright verticals so it looks as though the floor is sloping towards the image lower edge.

Agree Geoff, agree... completely !
To make a very good image to produce emotions and pleasant to the eye is not easy.
Well... that depends how demanding you are.

Yes I am, or rather was, exercising my right finger too often and showing all of the trash on a daily basis with my expectations and anxieties. Today I made just two shots because I have been busy most of the time. they are in the trash.

Tomorrow, it will be another day and perhaps I will make an acceptable photograph. I hope so at least.
Cheers !

[Antonio Correia]

Sunday, before the beginning of the 5.th week of the year, shot this trash on a beach near the industrial area at sunset. Nothing exciting !

[Antonio Correia]

Another one from last Sunday before I have the time to make something acceptable the current week.

There is indeed a bit banding or whatever you may call it, at the up right... which I do not see neither on the computer nor on the web. Only here !
The red dots are out of gamut areas which I did not correct and only saw when the crop was posted here.


I really, really like sharp lenses and this is one of them, for sure.

As always, this is not the raw file but a modified one.

[Shadowman]

The trash shot displays interesting planes of the environment connected to present a somewhat flat surface, the landscape shots from the Sunday shoot have similar presentation.

[Antonio Correia]

I am very sorry that areas which were nice not many years ago, have been transformed in unpleasant ones.
But this is the price to pay for "civilisation".

Another shot from Sunday afternoon in the same area

[skitterbug]

I am very sorry that areas which were nice not many years ago, have been transformed in unpleasant ones.
But this is the price to pay for "civilisation".

Another shot from Sunday afternoon in the same area

I saw this image first since I started with the newest of your posts and worked my way back in time. Since at first, I didn't have the knowledge that you were taking pictures of trash, I didn't realize that this one was suppose to be "trash" too. You've created a mini-documentary. This image (#78) is really interesting to me and I actually wondered what kind of huge snakes crawled onto the beach and died! Interesting picture!

Looking back through your photos, the one in your post #65 seems better to me than the re-edited one in #70. I think the tile lost some character in #70.
I like the direction of your photo work. It is giving me a glimpse of your surroundings! Keep taking the camera along with you. Keep these interesting pictures coming!

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Sandy for your kind words.
If you look closely you will notice that it is not a snake on the beach but a rope. It was shot on the same beach as post 75
The photo in post 70 is just the raw file with the histogram on top right.
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Today I went out again without anything in mind or rather, one thing in mind: exercise the pointer finger of my right hand !

I have a project in progress (On the phone) but this photograph is not for it, as it's not good enough. However, I have already a bunch of them...
The other shot is just to play with shallow DOF and hand focusing.